Erm...
Money for old rope me thinks.
Millions more Americans will now be able to engage in SMS inane babble and update the world on their lunch habits with the official launch of the TwitterPeek, a handheld device that does nothing but let you Twitter. Unfortunately, UK Twitterers standing by to defend the honour of Stephen Fry and/or the baboon genus will have …
"Alternatively, they can cough up $199 and get unlimited Twittering for the lifetime of the device. Though presumably they are not actually predicting the lifetime of the device will be approximately 18 months"
Or presumably until the company goes bust due to their truly vacuous products.
Seriously - a device that ONLY do emails or one that can ONLY twitter? Hmm...I'll stick to my trusty N73, which can do both* and a whole lot more.
*except it will never Twitter, obviously - if I ever found myself with an urge to Twitter I would bite off my thumbs...
Huh. Even among the most costly carriers here, unlimited texting (and picture and video messaging..) is $20 a month. And $5 gets 250 "outside" messages plus unlimited within my carrier, $10 gets 500 "outside" messages.. I'd really have to tweet A LOT to get my money's worth out of one of these (and I don't tweet at all.)